Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Besides the Bible Book Club

Welcome to our fourth EVER Besides the Bible Book Club “meeting.” We’re excited to have read this book together with you this December. Join the conversation in the comments below. Kim is moderating, so just hit reply and chime in. We’ve also created a PDF version of the discussion...

December 31st, 2012 | Books | Read More

Convergence: A Parable by Michael D. Bobo

A stranger appears in Greenstone, a small mid-American town, whose presence evokes images of Jesus in first century Nazareth. Could this be another Messiah? Is this stranger worth listening to – even following? Inevitably the religious establishment struggles with his miracle working power. The stranger...

July 24th, 2012 | Books, Essays | Read More

Why I Will Never Give Up On Paper Books

I was chatting with someone this week about books and publishing, and how the way everyone is reading has changed. The topic turned to this myth of the demise of the printed book. “Paper books are becoming redundant,” declared my friend, “you won’t be buying a printed copy of a book soon. You’ll...

June 12th, 2012 | Blog, Books, Essays | Read More

Pregmancy: A Review

Has there ever been another humorous take on fatherhood, that acknowledged the stress involved because the father is doing his job? If there is, I’m sure there aren’t many. Starting with the news of the arrival of their second child, Zoe,Christian Piatt walks the reader through...

May 29th, 2012 | Blog, Books | Read More

Does Business Matter to God?

For most Christians, there is a clear disconnect between their faith and business. Their Christian beliefs and practices are channeled primarily within the family with the purpose of creating moral individuals and healthy relationships. When the Christian faith is applied to business, it often results...

May 4th, 2012 | Books | Read More

System Failure

There are plenty of criticisms offered against today’s American youth and young adults. And despite the fact that I turn forty in a few weeks, I still consider myself among them: a kindred spirit of cultural orphans, still sifting through the detritus of an evaporating American Dream to figure out...

November 30th, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

Creatively Destroying Borders

Then I took a good look at everything I’d done, looked at all the sweat and hard work. But when I looked, I saw nothing but smoke. Smoke and spitting into the wind. There was nothing to any of it. Nothing. (Ecclesiastes 2:11, The Message translation) Death by Borders On occasion, working at Borders...

September 28th, 2011 | Books, Featured | Read More

The Pale King Reviewed

In 1990, in a lecture titled “Informing Ourselves to Death,” given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society in Stuttgart, and sponsored by IBM-Germany, lecturer Neil Postman—renowned author, lecturer, teacher, social critic, and luddite—concluded with these words: “…what...

July 21st, 2011 | Arts, Books | Read More

Eat, Pray, Love, Stay? Heal?

I recently saw the DVD trailer for the movie, “Eat, Pray, Love” that came out last summer. It is the screen adaptation of the widely popular memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert of her year spent traveling the world in search of healing and renewal after a divorce. Julia Roberts plays Gilbert and the...

April 28th, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

Lessons from the Dawn Treader

I should confess, right at the beginning, I am probably incapable of reviewing anything related to the Chronicles of Narnia in anything resembling a completely objective manner. Lewis’s Narnia books were some of the first books that I can remember reading, and I can’t remember a time in my childhood...

March 8th, 2011 | Arts, Featured, Film | Read More